The Standard ML Basis Library

The CommandLine structure

Synopsis

signature COMMAND_LINE
structure CommandLine :> COMMAND_LINE

The CommandLine structure provides access to the name and arguments used to invoke the currently running program.

Interface

val name : unit -> string
val arguments : unit -> string list

Description

val name : unit -> string
The name used to invoke the current program.

val arguments : unit -> string list
The argument list used to invoke the current program.
Implementation note:

The arguments returned may be only a subset of the arguments actually supplied by the user, since an implementation's runtime system may consume some of them.



Discussion

The precise semantics of the above operations are operating system and implementation-specific. For example, name might return a full pathname or just the base name. See also the comment under arguments.

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Last Modified September 1, 1997
Comments to John Reppy.

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